15 Signs Linux Is Not For You

1 hour 15 minutes ago
If you recognized yourself in a few of these points, that doesn’t mean Linux isn’t for you. In fact, you can count it as an invitation. It just means you’ve spent a long time in an ecosystem that treats you more like a product than a participant.
Roland Taylor

[Stable Update] 2025-12-15 - Kernels, NVIDIA, Plasma, Cosmic, Firefox

1 hour 16 minutes ago

Hello community, here we have another set of package updates. Welcome to our new development cycle of Manjaro 25.1.0, code-named ‘Anh-Linh’.We will focus on Plasma 6.5 series and will introduce GNOME 49, maybe Cosmic 1.0 (Beta).

We managed to stabilize ‘Anh-Linh’ enough to release this update to our stable branch. However, users of Plasma and GNOME may lose their X11 session support. Therefore read our Known issues and solutions section before restarting your systems!

Current Promotions Recent News Valkey to replace Redis in the [extra] Repository (click for more details) Previous News Finding information easier about Manjaro (click for more details) Notable Package Updates
  • Kernels got updated
  • NVIDIA 580.119.02
    • current 580xx driver seems to be super unstable. Users who face issues are recommended to report to NVIDIA and may want to switch to the older 575xx driver via mhwd. You’re been warned …
  • COSMIC Epoch 1
  • KDE Gear 25.12
  • KDE Plasma 6.5.4
  • Firefox 146.0 and 147.0b1
  • Updates to Deepin, Python and Haskell
Additional Info Python 3.13 info (click for more details) Info about AUR packages (click for more details)

Get our latest daily developer images now from Github: Plasma, GNOME, XFCE. You can get the latest stable releases of Manjaro from CDN77.

ISOs including this update can be found here:

Anh-Linh 25.1-pre2 (2025-12-15)

  • TBD

Our current supported kernels

  • linux54 5.4.302 [EOL]
  • linux510 5.10.247
  • linux515 5.15.197
  • linux61 6.1.159
  • linux66 6.6.119
  • linux612 6.12.62
  • linux617 6.17.12
  • linux618 6.18.1
  • linux61-rt 6.1.158_rt58
  • linux66-rt 6.6.119_rt67
  • linux612-rt 6.12.57_rt14
  • linux617-rt 6.17.5_rt7

Package Changes (12/12/25 17:36 CET)

  • stable core x86_64: 20 new and 20 removed package(s)
  • stable extra x86_64: 936 new and 1069 removed package(s)
  • stable multilib x86_64: 7 new and 7 removed package(s)

A list of all changes can be found here.

Click to view the poll.

Check if your mirror has already synced:

2 posts - 2 participants

Read full topic

philm

YouTube’s AI is Breaking the Creator Ecosystem

1 day 2 hours ago
A moderation system that leans on automation just knocked legitimate tech tutorials and even entire channels offline. The appeals felt automated, too. Creators are powerless against opaque enforcement and the incentives that should favor craft and trust are tilting toward noise.
Theena Kumaragurunathan

[Testing Update] 2025-12-13 - KDE Gear, Cosmic 1, NVIDIA

2 days 1 hour ago

Hello community, here we have another set of package updates. Welcome to our new development cycle of Manjaro 25.1.0, code-named ‘Anh-Linh’.We will focus on Plasma 6.5 series and will introduce GNOME 49, maybe Cosmic 1.0 (Beta).

Current Promotions Recent News Valkey to replace Redis in the [extra] Repository (click for more details) Previous News Finding information easier about Manjaro (click for more details) Notable Package Updates Additional Info Python 3.13 info (click for more details) Info about AUR packages (click for more details)

Get our latest daily developer images now from Github: Plasma, GNOME, XFCE. You can get the latest stable releases of Manjaro from CDN77.

Our current supported kernels

  • linux54 5.4.302 [EOL]
  • linux510 5.10.247
  • linux515 5.15.197
  • linux61 6.1.159
  • linux66 6.6.119
  • linux612 6.12.62
  • linux617 6.17.12
  • linux618 6.18.1
  • linux61-rt 6.1.158_rt58
  • linux66-rt 6.6.116_rt66
  • linux612-rt 6.12.57_rt14
  • linux617-rt 6.17.5_rt7

Package Changes (12/12/25 17:36 CET)

  • testing core x86_64: 18 new and 18 removed package(s)
  • testing extra x86_64: 710 new and 741 removed package(s)
  • testing multilib x86_64: 5 new and 5 removed package(s)

A list of all changes can be found here.

Click to view the poll.

Check if your mirror has already synced:

7 posts - 6 participants

Read full topic

philm

How to Use Fedora Toolbx for Isolated Development Environments

2 days 22 hours ago
The post How to Use Fedora Toolbx for Isolated Development Environments first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Modern Linux development has moved beyond the traditional approach of installing everything directly on your system. You now have access

The post How to Use Fedora Toolbx for Isolated Development Environments first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.
Ravi Saive

What’s New in KDE Gear 25.12 — A Major Update for KDE Software

3 days 13 hours ago
by George Whittaker Introduction

The KDE community has just published KDE Gear 25.12, the newest quarterly update to its suite of applications. This refresh brings a mix of enhancements, bug fixes, performance refinements, and new features across many popular KDE apps, from Dolphin file manager and Konsole terminal to Krita and Spectacle. With this release, KDE continues its tradition of incremental yet meaningful upgrades that make everyday use smoother and more productive.

KDE Gear updates are not limited to the KDE Plasma desktop; they also benefit users of other desktop environments who install KDE apps on their systems. Whether you’re running KDE on Linux, BSD, or even Windows via KDE Windows builds, Gear 25.12 delivers improvements worth checking out.

Highlights from KDE Gear 25.12 Dolphin: Better File Browsing and Thumbnails

Dolphin, KDE’s file manager, receives several enhancements in this update:

  • Improved thumbnail generation for more file types, making previews quicker and more dependable.

  • UI polish in the sidebar for easier navigation between folders and mounted drives.

  • Better handling of network shares and remote locations, improving responsiveness and reducing hangs.

These changes combine to make everyday file exploration more responsive and visually informative.

Konsole: Productivity Boosts

The KDE terminal emulator, Konsole, gets attention too:

  • Search field improvements help you find text within long terminal scrollbacks faster and with fewer clicks.

  • Tab and session indicators are clearer, helping users manage multiple tabs or split views more easily.

  • Stability fixes reduce crashes in edge cases when closing multiple sessions at once.

For developers and power users who spend a lot of time in a terminal, these refinements are genuinely useful.

Krita: More Painting Power

Krita, KDE’s professional painting and illustration application, also benefits from this release:

  • Improvements to brush performance, reducing lag on large canvases and complex brush sets.

  • Better color management and palette handling, smoothing workflows for digital artists.

  • Fixes for certain configuration edge cases that previously caused settings not to persist across sessions.

Artists and digital illustrators should notice fewer interruptions and smoother performance when working on large projects.

Go to Full Article
George Whittaker

.NET packages may require manual intervention

3 days 23 hours ago

The following packages may require manual intervention due to the upgrade from 9.0 to 10.0:

  • aspnet-runtime
  • aspnet-targeting-pack
  • dotnet-runtime
  • dotnet-sdk
  • dotnet-source-built-artifacts
  • dotnet-targeting-pack

pacman may display the following error failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) for the affected packages.

If you are affected by this and require the 9.0 packages, the following commands will update e.g. aspnet-runtime to aspnet-runtime-9.0:

pacman -Syu aspnet-runtime-9.0

pacman -Rs aspnet-runtime

George Rawlinson